Sunday, January 5, 2014

James White: Is the New Testament Reliable?

When Muslims hear about textual variants in the New Testament manuscripts, they assume that this somehow confirms their claim that the New Testament has been corrupted. This assumption, however, is grounded in complete ignorance (as James White easily demonstrates). The truth of the matter is that we have lots of textual variants because we have lots of manuscripts. And these manuscripts are precisely what textual critics use in order to establish the wording of the original writings.

Contrast this with the Muslim approach to Qur'anic variants. When textual differences arose among the early editions of the Qur'an, Caliph Uthman gathered the manuscripts together and burned them, in order to cover up the disagreements. He then distributed his new, official version of the Qur'an! (One can only imagine what Muslims would say if early Christians had burned all of our manuscripts. Would they not say that this is clear proof of a conspiracy to corrupt the text?)

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